Unable to Load Plugins
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To load plugins, follow the steps below.

1. Make sure that your plugin source code contains an ``TSPluginInit``
   initialization function.

2. Compile your plugin source code, creating a shared library.

3. Add an entry to the ``plugin.config`` file for your plugin.

4. Add the path to your plugin shared library to the :file:`records.config`
   file.

5. Restart Traffic Server.

For detailed information about each step above, refer to
:doc:`../getting-started/a-simple-plugin.en`.